Update Warm Up ExercisesWe have seen over 1000 messages the last week in multiple threads trying to figure out what Google is up to on www-sj. Here we are a week later and the fact is, we still don't know.

Update Dominic: Google Monthly Index RefreshThere are some obvious changes afoot in the Google update process. Starts and false starts galore, but now that the index is moving across the servers, it is clear time to call it an update!

CGI Scalability"...when it comes to scalability, what is the best approach? Should one keep the code on each page to the absolute minimum for that page to function? A complex dynamic site might have several thousand lines of code. It would seem a waste of resources to reload all of this with each call to the server."

Google Serves 80%+ of Searches on Web TodayAccording to figures released by One Stat (a counter service), Google serves 55% of the searches on the web. When you throw in those serviced via Yahoo and AOL, the figure jumps to 80%.

Using the HTML 4 Acronym Tag"I deal with a large portion of industrial type web sites and there are a lot of acronyms flying around. I was looking for a way to assist accessibility users with determining what the acronym stood for."

Importing Flat File into mySQL"I'm trying to import a file called products.dat into mySQL. I can get it into Excel, but I keep having a problem with extra quotation marks being inserted into the fields."

Australia Opens Pandora Archive"The National Library of Australia has been spidering sites that have consented to have their content archived in a local version of the Wayback Machine. The requirement for Australia-relevant content is important."

Adwords Powerposting"Power Posting is an AdWords account tool to better control a campaign. Power Posting lets you specify additional information for individual keywords or phrases within an ad group."